Designer, Project Manager

The Albert C. Wiltshire Employment Center recruits qualified candidates for positions within the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a 300-acre industrial park housing over 400+ businesses within the manufacturing, food, media, technology, and creative fields.

A Brooklyn Navy Yard-based company is looking for a Designer, Project Manager. We are looking for an experienced Designer, who has worked on the sales side, as well as the project management side, and appreciates a detail-oriented workplace. You must have a minimum of 5 years relevant experience.

We are: A Brooklyn based design-build company specializing in built-in furniture. Occasionally working on freestanding furniture and sometimes working as a general contractor. We have been in business for 17 years and have developed a reputation for our client management. We work directly with homeowners; on rare occasions we will work with Designers and Architects.

Our typical projects: We work on projects located in New York City, mostly in Manhattan and Brooklyn. They will range in size from 10K (a simple Bookcase) to 150K (a kitchen or larger apartment build-out)

Responsibilities:
-Speak with prospective clients on the phone and offer estimates
-Schedule meetings on site meetings if our work is with-in their budget; meetings will be held at the client’s home in order to take a survey and send a quote
-Coordinating the project contract and begin on a schematic design
-Follow-up phone meetings and revisions to discuss a final approved design will be drawn up for site confirmation and fabrication
-Partner directly with the fabrication team throughout the process and arrange for the installation.
-Provide clients updates on progress and expectations as the project continues on-site – usually (2-10 days)

Your team: Our design team works independently on projects but consults each other with issues that arise as well as always improving our process. In the shop we have about 10 people, specialists and generalists who will bring your designs into being.

Work load: Typically, you will speak with a few prospective clients a week, visit a couple of homes a week and be working on around 10 projects at a time that are somewhere between schematic design and installation. As a company we install one or two projects a week. New work tends to ebb and flow, and so too do our needs when it comes to focusing on new sales verses other parts of the process. Our designers work about 40-45hrs a week and do not bring work home.

Software: We design in Sketch-up and use V-ray and Photoshop for rendering. The fabrication team will then use e-cabinets for CNC work.

Compensation: Compensation is based on a combination of Hourly pay and project-based bonuses. We reimburse for cell phone use, there are 8+ days of PTO and 8+ paid Holidays. There are no health or retirement plans offered. Yearly compensation is $75K-$90K